The goal of descriptive research is to understand a specific set of variables in a group of individuals, but stops short of understanding the relationship between the variables, what caused them ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary had said simple definition, but Burrows was immediately drawn to the word’s more complicated example sentence, buried at the bottom of the entry: “He perched ...

In our research, typical news readers preferred simple headlines over complex ones. But importantly, we found that those who actually write headlines — journalists themselves — did not. We first used ...